Exploring Language

"Exploring Language, 8th Edition, collects 84 selections in nine chapters to focus on some provocative aspects of American culture as they are revealed by language. Among the timely topics: the media and bias, computers and writing, black English, gender differences, "warspeak," advertising (as manipulation or art?), political double talk, and bilingualism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Page xxii568 James Gorman Language and Thought 5 Susanne K. Langer Doubts About
Doublespeak 486 William Lutz With These Words I Can Sell You Anything 1 46 William Lutz Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines 313 Rosalie Maggio The ...

Page 146WlTH THESE WORDS I CAN SELL YOU ANYTHING William Lutz In "Politics and
the English Language," George Orwell writes that the "great enemy of clear
language is insincerity." To fill the gap "between one's real and one's declared
aims," ...